Democracy in the political present
a queer-feminist theory
- ISBN: 9781839767333
- Editorial: Verso Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 240
- Idiomas: Inglés
'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'
In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities-one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.
Introduction: Democracy in present tense
Ch 1 Rousseau: Assembly instead of representation
Ch 2 Derrida: Democracy-to-come
Ch 3 Benjamin: Leaps of Now-Time
Ch 4 Foucault: infinite presence
Ch 5 Negri: Democracy and constituting power
Ch 6 Presentist Democracy: Practices of care and queer debts
